Professor Edward Peck joined Nottingham Trent University as Vice-Chancellor in August 2014. The university educates over 40,000 students from a wide range of backgrounds and employs circa 4,500 staff across six campuses. Previously, he worked at the University of Birmingham as Pro Vice- Chancellor and Head of the College of Social Sciences following his early career being spent in the NHS. His academic interests encompass public policy and organisational leadership; he is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Peck is Deputy Chair of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) and a former Board member of both UUK and Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA). He was a member of the UK Government's Post-18 Fees and Funding – aka Augar – Review Panel and is still very engaged with the implementation of the Lifelong Learning Entitlement. In May 2022 he was appointed as the Department for Education’s initial Higher Education Student Support Champion and subsequently Chair of the Higher Education Mental Health Implementation Taskforce in June 2023.
In July 2020 he was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire and was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours List for Services to Higher Education.